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What do DMGs do? Value to the Scottish Rural Economy. Close seasons for deer in Scotland. How does ADMG work? What are Deer Management Groups? Deer Management Groups are not unique to Scotland although they have proved highly suitable to the Scottish pattern of land ownership, particularly where the holdings are generally large, as in the Highlands. Increasingly groups liaise and co-operate with other interest groups and with local communities. They have evolved rapidly in recent years and are be.
The area comprises mainly upland terrain characterised by undulating moorland rising to high mountains and corries at the northern and western end.
The East Ross Deer Management group encapsulates a land area of circa 20,000 hectares of mixed land types with the predominance being heather moorland, commercial forestry blocks, parcels of farmland both for arable and stock farming use and in the Northern section of the group there are areas of the land which are under crofting tenure including 3 areas of common grazing. The northern reaches of the group form part of the water catchment area for the river Carron and given that some of the current group.
East Sutherland DMG lies inland from the east coast between Golspie and Helmsdale.
On this site you will find information about the Group as well as a copy of the Draft Deer Management Plan. Which is currently under development and is undergoing a period of Public Consultation. The Group would very much welcome feedback and comments by 15th April 2016.